On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:54:21PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Michael Gerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> | Michael Gerz wrote:
> | 
> | > Enclosed, please find a different patch based on my conclusions.
> | >
> | > Mac/Linux/Windows users, please test!
> | 
> | It turns out that gettext on Windows/MinGW (--with-included-gettext !)
> | doesn't really care about all the things we do in messages.C - it
> | checks the language settings by itself!
> | 
> | Enclosed please find a new patch (I forgot one important change in my
> | previous patch).
> | 
> | If the only objective is to make gettext work on Windows, I could
> | certainly come up with a simpler patch. However, if we want to cleanup
> | the code at the same time and make it more comprehensible, this patch
> | might be used as a starting point.
> | 
> | Jean-Marc, Lars, how shall we proceed?
> 
> I think this is now getting just worse... 
> 
> messages.C has become more and more complex with little or no benefit
> for "unix" systems. IMHO we should revert messages.C to what it was
> before this debacle and figure out a windows only solution that does
> not uglify the rest of the code.
 
I tend to agree. A minimal change to get Windows working, at this stage.

Save the current patch for future reference.

- Martin 

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